What is with the Roman Catholic Church and women?
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What is with the Roman Catholic Church and women?

“What is it with the Roman Catholic Church and women? It is not as if they have just arrived on the scene and need to be integrated into the life of the Church. In fact, they are the life of the church.” Read Michael Higgins blog post to find out more

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St Jerome’s University Lectures in Catholic Experience presents Dr. Tricia Bruce - Her Place in the Church: Gender, Power, and Authority in Contemporary Catholicism-Review by Cathie Pead
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St Jerome’s University Lectures in Catholic Experience presents Dr. Tricia Bruce - Her Place in the Church: Gender, Power, and Authority in Contemporary Catholicism-Review by Cathie Pead

Gender has long prescribed the roles of men and women in the Catholic Church, refereed formally via ordination and informally via social norms. Drawing upon hundreds of interviews, Sociologist Dr. Tricia Bruce compares the prospects and parameters of women’s leadership at two moments in the Church: following Vatican II (six decades ago) and today.

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